Star Sonata Wiki Updates.

Recently I created a program that allows rapid editing of ship statistics on the Star Sonata Wiki. This works by copying the content of a wiki page, searching for ship names, and then outputting various information about the ships into a table based on the information contained in the xml files that can be used for a local Star Sonata server (it does not update the images of the ships however).

I recently used this is update this page http://wiki2.starsonata.com/index.php/Ships, and to add the statistics of various fighters, at http://wiki2.starsonata.com/index.php/Fighters. Most of the ships in the main Ships page have been updated, but a few have not (many of the freighters in particular, due to the xml file that they are in having slightly different formatting to the xml file where I got the main ship statistics from).

If there are any ships or fighters that you want me to update with this tool, add a new row in either the Ships or Fighters page by adding this to one of the previous rows:

with shipname being replaced with the name of the ship, or fighter. If you want you can replace the Coming soon.png image with an image of the ship or fighter. None of the other columns need to be filled out (my tool will do that automatically), but It wont do any harm if they are. Some ships, such as AI only ships and developer/admin-only ships I won’t be able to do unless I get permission to do so, but most ships that are flown by players are alright to add in for me to update.

Eventually I plan do a similar thing to other lists in the wiki, such as energy, shield and engines, by modifying the tool I already have to update the statistics of them from other xml files that are used in a local Star Sonata server, and I will make another blog post when I do this.

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